Happy New Year! As we enter the new year, I’ve been thinking about what we want to make possible in the year ahead. For TTS, one answer is simple: more storytellers telling. [Redirects to Mailchimp]

When we speak about the Holocaust, we usually center our discussion the systematic persecution and murder of Jewish people. Fully understanding this history also requires us to recognize the many other communities targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators — and to learn each community’s distinct story without collapsing those experiences into one. [redirects to MailChimp]

Some histories are difficult not only because of what happened, but because of what they ask us to confront about human beings. This summer, our second Echoes of the Past series examines the Holocaust by Bullets. [Redirects to MailChimp]

One of the challenges of a distributed community is that it can be difficult to see the whole picture. As we find ourselves in the middle of the year, it’s worth stepping back and looking at what they add up to. [Redirects to MailChimp]

April was a full month for Teach the Shoah. Across Yom HaShoah programs and community gatherings, our storytellers carried survivor stories into classrooms, synagogues, community centers, and homes. May has been quieter, but the work has not stopped. [Redirects to MailChimp]

In recent months, I have had the opportunity to sit with survivors as they hear their stories told back to them. It is a remarkable moment in which we see a quiet yet profound shift. What has been lived by one person is now being held, carefully and responsibly, by another. [Redirects to Mailchimp]

Teach the Shoah’s 2025 Annual Report offers a snapshot of the stories, storytellers, and spaces through which Holocaust memory is carried forward as living memory in new communities and new generations.

There are times when the work is visible—when a teller stands before an audience and a story is carried aloud. And there are times when the work happens more quietly. February held both. We gathered for an Echoes of the Past program, Saving Our Souls, examining acts...

When storyteller Cathy Polakoff shared the story of Olympic swimmer Eva Szekely with a high school class recently, a student commented that she had always known the Holocaust was “a bad thing,” but only when she heard it through a storyteller’s voice did she truly feel its enormity. [Redirects to Mailchimp]

“That was the most powerful Holocaust program I’ve ever attended.” A gentleman who attended one of our in-person programs in December sent this comment to Tanya, who organized the program. You can’t ask for better feedback than that. [Redirects to Mailchimp]